Francesco Mancini (Naples, 1830–1905) was an Italian painter.

Biography

In 1844 Francesco Mancini became a student at the

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

Royal Institute of Fine Arts, where he studied drawing and attended Gabriele Smargiassi’s course on landscape from 1846. At the end of the decade he moved on from his academic training and devoted himself to painting from life, during numerous travels in the regions of southern Italy. He also tried his hand at

history painting History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a narrative story, most often (but not exclusively) Greek and Roman mythology and Bible ...

and presented scenes from the struggle for national liberation in

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

at the Esposizione Nazionale di Firenze of 1861. A leading figure in Neapolitan cultural life, Mancini became a member of the Società Promotrice di Belle Arti there in 1862 and was a regular participant in its exhibitions. In 1877 he took up a teaching post at the city's Academy and was one of the founders of the ''Circolo Artistico Napoletano'' in 1888. His participation in the major national exhibitions in Italian cities included those in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

(1880 and 1884) and in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

(1881). His landscapes inspired by the countryside and customs of the

Abruzzi Abruzzo (, , ; nap, label=Neapolitan language, Abruzzese Neapolitan, Abbrùzze , ''Abbrìzze'' or ''Abbrèzze'' ; nap, label=Sabino dialect, Aquilano, Abbrùzzu; #History, historically Abruzzi) is a Regions of Italy, region of Southern Italy wi ...

Apulia it, Pugliese , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_title1 = , demographics1_info1 = , demographic ...

, and

Calabria , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_title1 = , demographics1_info1 = , demographics1_title2 ...

regions were accompanied in this period by his more fashionable scenes of city life painted during frequent stays in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

and

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

, which found great favour with the collectors of the time. His works found buyers in Europe and America, and he was knighted into the

Order of the Crown of Italy The Order of the Crown of Italy ( it, Ordine della Corona d'Italia, italic=no or OCI) was founded as a national order in 1868 by King Vittorio Emanuele II, to commemorate the unification of Italy in 1861. It was awarded in five degrees for civi ...

. He exhibited in 1877 at Naples: ''La strada ferrata'' (property of the Conte de la Feld); four canvases depicting ''Torchio''; and one titled ''a rupe''. In 1880 at Turin, he exhibited: ''Seascape of Capri''; ''Seascape of Casamicciola''; ''Capo Pescara''; ''Seascape of Naples''; ''Approdo delle barche di

Sorrento Sorrento (, ; nap, Surriento ; la, Surrentum) is a town overlooking the Bay of Naples in Southern Italy. A popular tourist destination, Sorrento is located on the Sorrentine Peninsula at the south-eastern terminus of the Circumvesuviana rail ...

''; ''Seascape of

Pozzuoli Pozzuoli (; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' of the Metropolitan City of Naples, in the Italian region of Campania. It is the main city of the Phlegrean Peninsula. History Pozzuoli began as the Greek colony of ''Dicaearchia'' ( el, Δικα� ...

''; and ''Veduta dei tre Monti''. in 1881 at Milan, he displayed: a landscape, ''Nel bosco'', and ''Mercato a Popoli negli

''. At Rome, in 1883: ''A Zingara (A Gypsy Woman)''; ''Dopo il pascolo'' (also exhibited in 1884 at Turin); ''Sport''; and ''Dopo la vendemmia''. In 1887 at Venezia, in 1887: ''

Amalfi Amalfi (, , ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno, in the region of Campania, Italy, on the Gulf of Salerno. It lies at the mouth of a deep ravine, at the foot of Monte Cerreto (1,315 metres, 4,314 feet), surrounded by dramatic c ...

; ''

Pompei Pompei (; nap, Pumpeje, ) or Pompeii (, as in the name of the ancient city) is a city and commune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy, home of the ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii that are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. History ...

''; ''San Marco'', and '' Cava dei Tirreni''. Other works are: ''

Veduta A ''veduta'' (Italian for "view"; plural ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''. Origins This genre ...

di Popoli''; ''Seascape of Ischia''; ''Alpine Locale''; ''Mattino estivo''; ''Ritorno dalla pena''; and ''Tramonto''.''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti''
by

Angelo de Gubernatis Count Angelo De Gubernatis (1840–26 February 1913), Italian man of letters, was born in Turin and educated there and at Berlin, where he studied philology. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature fourteen times. Life In 1862 he wa ...

. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 274-275.

References

* Anna Caputi, Raffaello Causa, Raffaele Mormone, ''La Galleria dell'Accademia di Belle Arti in Napoli'', Napoli: Banco di Napoli, 1971, p. 113. * Joachim Busse, ''Internationales Handbuch aller Maler und Bilhauer des 19. Jahrhunderts: Busse-Verzeichnis'', Wiesbaden: Busse Kunst Dokumentation, 1977. * Enrico Castelnuovo, ''La Pittura in Italia – L'Ottocento'', Milano: Banca nazionale dell'agricoltura, 1991, p. 897. * ''Saur allgemeines Künstlerlexiko: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker'', München-Leipzig : Saur, 1999, vol. 6, p. 489. * Bénézit, ''Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays'', Paris: Gründ, 1999, vol. 9, p. 126. * Claudio Mazzarese, Fardella Mungivera, 800, altro: pittura napoletana tra Ottocento e Novecento'', Napoli: Rogios, 2011, Rogiosi. * Laura Casone
Francesco Mancini
online catalogu
Artgate
by

Fondazione Cariplo Fondazione Cariplo is a charitable foundation in Milan, Italy. It was created in December 1991 when the Amato law, Law no. 218 of 30 July 1990, came into force. Under this law, saving banks were required to separate into a not-for-profit found ...

, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article).

Other projects

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mancini, Francesco 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Painters from Naples Italian genre painters 1830 births 1905 deaths 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists